Ausi Told Me: Why Cape Herstoriographies Matter by Assoc Prof June Bam Hutchison
CAS invites you to a youth month special book launch event, Ausi Told Me: Why Cape Herstoriographies Matter by Assoc Prof June Bam Hutchison.
Programme:
Ausidi Knowledge Keepers Shaping Our Youth
Prof June Bam's groundbreaking book, Ausi Told Me: Why Cape Herstoriographies Matter provides fascinating insights into life at the Cape over several centuries, the indigenous inhabitants and their accumulated knowledge, and how attempts were made to systematically erase this knowledge during the colonial and apartheid eras. Yet the wisdom of the ages still resides with the Ausidi, the female intergenerational knowledge-keepers who are revered for the central role they played in Rondevlei, Hardevlei and other communities on the Cape Flats. Before the forced removals from the 1960s onwards changed the landscape forever. The book delves into many of the untold stories of the Cape, challenging various scholarly assumptionsabout the origins and enduring influence of the Khoi and San in the languages and cultures of southern Africa.
17:30 Acknowledgement of Ancestors & Land
17:35 Welcome Assoc Prof June Bam
17:45 Featured Artist Jolyn Phillips
17:50 Ausidi Knowledge Keepers: Reading & Discussion
18:00 Q&A
18:10 The Feminine Divine Shaping Our Youth: Reading & Discussion
18:20 Q&A
18:30 Jolyn Phillips
18:35 Lalela Deep Listening: A scholarship for the future
18:45 Wrap
Hybrid Event: Online Zoom(details below) & Centre for African Studies Gallery, University of Cape Town
Date & Time: Thurs June 9th at 17:30
RSVP: june.bam-hutchison@uct.ac.za
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82264132889?pwd=ODFoajFZOUNiQ0FHVXlwS0wwRktlUT09
Meeting ID: 822 6413 2889
Passcode: 762501
Hybrid Event: Online Zoom(details below) & Centre for African Studies Gallery, University of Cape Town
Date & Time: Thurs June 9th at 17:30
RSVP: june.bam-hutchison@uct.ac.za
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82264132889?pwd=ODFoajFZOUNiQ0FHVXlwS0wwRktlUT09
Meeting ID: 822 6413 2889
Passcode: 762501